Darvills Hill Wood

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Darvills Hill Wood belonged to the Manor of Princes Risborough.    In 1823. The Enclosures of Princes Risborough all the woods remained the  property of John Grubb Esq, the Lord of the Manor, remaining as part of the Parish Woodlands. See Parish Woodlands for more woods.

1^st June 1841  John Grubb was bankrupt.   His estate was purchased Lord Buckingham and Chandos, who in 1848 also went bankrupt and his estate was put up for auction.

1848  Lot 14   Darvills Hill Wood, which had been kept in hand (not tenanted) containing 21 acres, 3 roods & 14 perches and 3 gardens adjoining, 1 rood, 28 perches, let to Williams, Turner, Dell and others.

1857   COMMUTATION of TITHES no. 3/152    (edited)    OWNERS JAMES STRATTON & JOSEPH LOOSLEY  

James Stratton of Princes Risborough, farmer, and Joseph Loosley of the same place, farmer, owned 47 acres, being Darvills Hill Wood and Cane Field, part of the Parish Woodlands of Princes Risborough, excempted from the Enclosures Award 1823.

12th September 1884 Indenture between John Cheshire and Charles Hodsdon of West Wycombe, chairmaker.

JOHN CHESHIRE to SARAH FLOYD

1887  John Cheshire, miller, gave to his daughter Sarah Floyd, the wife of John Floyd, see John & Sarah Floyd, land, part of Darvills Hill Wood, containing 67 perches.   Bounded on the NW by Darvills Hill Wood and on the SE by the public road leading from Darvills Hill to Speen.  This piece of ground was late in the occupation of Cornelius Williams and now in the occupation of Mary Williams and George Brown, together with the messuage, now converted into 3 cottages, erected on the same piece of ground

1908 SARAH FLOYD SOLD TO HATT BROTHERS

January 1908 Conveyance. The hereditaments described in 1887, conveyed by Sarah Floyd to Walter Joseph Hatt and Frederick James Hatt as tenants in common.